predicate
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Predicate the portion of a sentence that provides the description or characterization of an object or name.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
It may then be classed with Prepositions and Conjunctions; its office of Connection being still peculiar, however, namely, to intervene between the Subject and the Predicate.
From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
He argues that as generally is not part either of the Subject term or of the Predicate term, it must belong to the Copula, and is therefore a modal qualification of the whole assertion.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
The Predicate is the part which states that which is said about the subject.
From Practical Grammar and Composition by Wood, Thomas
Distinguish, in this Analysis, to avoid subsequent confusion, between the Subject and the Subject Term, the Predicate and the Predicate Term.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
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